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Overnight Board Finds Pattern of LAX Supervision in 4 Rikers Deaths
Gothamist
"The death reports BOC has issued over the past several years point out a tragic pattern — officers too often leave their posts to congregate with other officers, and when they are on post, fail to fulfill their most basic responsibility to check that people in their care are safe,” said Darren Mack, the cofounder of the Freedom Agenda, a group that has long pushed to close Rikers Island."Man Who Died in City Custody at Queens Courthouse Died by Suicide, Medical Examiner Says
Gothamist
"The idea that our criminal legal system produces so much despair should be chilling to all of us," Darren Mack, co-director of the Freedom Agenda, said in a statement Thursday. The nonprofit is an advocacy group that supports decarceration."Death of Murder Suspect in DOC Custody at Queens Court Ruled Suicide by Hanging
Daily News
"For Mr. Lopez Castillo, that included a year and counting at Rikers with no resolution to his case. We are grieving with his family at this horrific confirmation."
